Samantha Woodward Concept Being Taught: Beginning, middle, end of Horton Hears a Who Grade Level: 2
Common Core State Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.1: Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.5: Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.7: Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot
Lesson Objectives: The students will... - Take in information from the story Horton Hears a Who by watching a video on ed.Ted - Create a graphic organizer describing the beginning, middle, and end of the story - Use the app “clips” to make a video representing the plot of the story
Content: - Watch the following ed.Ted video and follow along with the audio reading of Horton Hears a Who: https://ed.ted.com/on/rQBPBdcn - Fill in the following graphic organizer with the corresponding events that happened in the beginning, middle, and end of the story
- Break the students up into groups and compare their graphic organizers with one another and come up with a decision regarding the beginning, middle, and end of the story - Act each one of three scenes out by creating a video using the “clips” app.
Closure: -Upload videos on YouTube to share with the class
Concept Being Taught: Beginning, middle, end of Horton Hears a Who
Grade Level: 2
Common Core State Standards:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.1: Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.5: Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.7: Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot
Lesson Objectives:
The students will...
- Take in information from the story Horton Hears a Who by watching a video on ed.Ted
- Create a graphic organizer describing the beginning, middle, and end of the story
- Use the app “clips” to make a video representing the plot of the story
Content:
- Watch the following ed.Ted video and follow along with the audio reading of Horton Hears a Who: https://ed.ted.com/on/rQBPBdcn
- Fill in the following graphic organizer with the corresponding events that happened in the beginning, middle, and end of the story
- Break the students up into groups and compare their graphic organizers with one another and come up with a decision regarding the beginning, middle, and end of the story
- Act each one of three scenes out by creating a video using the “clips” app.
Closure:
-Upload videos on YouTube to share with the class
Technologies used:
- https://ed.ted.com/on/rQBPBdcn
- Clips app
- Youtube.com